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It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product. -- Norman Jewison
I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good thing for young kids. -- Spike Lee
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. -- Anthony Burgess
All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being. -- bell hooks
Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States. If people look a certain way, they have a higher tendency of dying, of having their lives taken away. -- Ryan Coogler
Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook. -- Henry Rollins
During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity. -- Sal Albanese
One of the biggest challenges of writing for middle-grade or even young-adult readers is that I don't want to have too much violence in it - which really limits what you can do. It's important that they're not just bloodbaths or glorifying violence. I always try to show that a person who dies leaves a hole. There's grief in my books. -- Alane Ferguson
Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake. -- Ruth Rendell
Violence is not more efficient than non-violence. -- Andrew Young
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement. -- Andrew Young
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival. -- Andrew Young
When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence. -- Jane Roberts
The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even. -- Lidia Yuknavitch

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